From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 23 15:52:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A160150E6 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 15:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA17201; Sun, 23 May 1999 18:51:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:51:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch To: Terry Lambert Cc: unknown@riverstyx.net, bright@rush.net, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by In-Reply-To: <199905212147.OAA04190@usr07.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org yah my girlfriend says that I start breathing heavy, rock back and forth and just go completely out for a while. The music becomes backround at that point and I don;t think I realize sometimes its even playing or that it stopped wehen it did. -Pat ___________________________________________________________________________ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net Systems Administrator Rush Networking "Fear is the way to the Dark Side...Fear leads to Anger.... Anger leads to Hate.....Hate leads to Suffering." -Yoda, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace "And if my owners let me have some free time some day..... With all good intention I would probably run away..... clutching the short straw." -Marillion, "That Time of the Night", _Clutching_at_Straws_ ___________________________________________________________________________ On Fri, 21 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Sorry, but I just don't get this whole thread; how can anyone code > at their best while listening to music? The idea that my phone > might ring or that someone might show up and demand my attention > is enough that I can't get to my deepest level of concentration > due to anticipating the mere possibility of interruption. My best > work is always achieved at home or in an office with the door closed. > > Is it just that other people don't concentrate very deeply when > coding, or is it that they just don't code very deeply? > > All of the best coders I have known throughout my career go into > semi-autistic funks -- pacing, rocking backward and forward in their > chairs, etc. -- while producing their best code. > > Bill Gates is reputed to rock back and forth in his chair like > Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" when he is concentrating deeply upon > some subject (coding, taking money from little old ladies, whatever). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message